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U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville): Politicker Photo

During a swing through the Northeast last weekend, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) got some fundraising help at a reception hosted by the Republican leader of the New Jersey state Senate, Tom Kean Jr.

The Sunday fundraiser was the second hosted by Kean for McConnell this election cycle.

In 2005, McConnell was on the other side of the fundraising relationship with Kean, during the New Jerseyan’s own bid for the U.S. Senate. McConnell’s Bluegrass Committee PAC provided $10,000 to Kean’s campaign coffers during that effort. Kean ultimately lost to then-U.S. Rep. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.).

U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford The campaign of Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Lunsford has launched major defensive maneuvers to counter-act the attack ad launched against their candidate late last week by opponent Greg Fischer.

A letter from the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Sandler, Reiff, and Young written on behalf of "Friends of Bruce Lunsford" was fired off to every television station airing Fischer's 30-second attack ad today.

In the letter, Attorney Neil Reiff charges that the disclaimer in Fischer's ad does not meet the federal standards stipulated in the "Stand by your ad" provision of the Bipartian Campaign Act of 2002 and disqualifies the Fischer campaign from getting "lowest unit cost" advertising rates.

This afternoon, the Lunsford campaign also posted a point-by-point refutation of the charges levelled against Lunsford on its campaign website.

Former Kentucky Governor John Y. Brown denounced a recent attack ad by Senate candidate Greg Fischer as "character assassination" in a letter circulated by the campaign of candidate Bruce Lunsford this weekend.

Brown, who was Governor of the Commonwealth from 1979 to 1983, labelled Fischer's attacks as "untruthful" in the letter sent to newspaper editors and media outlets statewide on Sunday.